Jisc Digifest 2019 I attended the 2019 Digifest in Birmingham on the 12th and 13th March 2019. The theme for this year was Education 4.0, which, along with the fourth industrial revolution, describes the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) in education and how these tools may fundamentally change…
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On 12th September 2018 I attended the first Swansea University VR/AR Conference. The conference was an opportunity for staff across the University and from other institutions to share their experience of using virtual reality and augmented reality in teaching. The first talk I attended was by Lorna Saunder from City, University of London who dicussed…
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The 2018 SALT conference was held on the Bay Campus on the 18th July 2018 (full details on conference website). They keynote was delivered by Professor Sally Ann Bradley from AdvanceHE in which she spoke about the importance of CPD for all and the massive variety of activities that count as CPD. From presenting at…
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On 5th July 2018 I attended the Jisc Connect More Wales event held at Cardiff Metropolitan University (full details available on Jisc website). I have summarised the talks I attended below as well as my recomendations for what could be actioned within the Medical School. Keynote The main takeaway from the keynote was the announcement…
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